Remember we expect all puzzles to be tested under rigorous scientific conditions. All paper planes should be made with the same size and weight pieces of paper.

Maleverer would not be drawn more and we soon made sure it was but one of his pronouncements, great in words but small in action. It is for this reason, as well as his stern demeanor that Maleverer is invited but little to dine in the homes of the Academicians.

By noon, the snow lay thick upon the ground. I went back home, calling first at Mrs Maye and Dr Whores to play at cards but left within two hours much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled.

At my house, we dined upon a dish of steaks, a rabbit and part of a turkey-pie and were much pleased. My son Kit told me that he had passed his morning not at his studies but frolicking in the snow with some of the children from round about our house. I spoke to him sternly but at length relented and told him that if he would learn one of Varkin's passages by-heart he might pass the afternoon in a similar fashion. After an hour he had got the passage word by word and ran into the street where his play-fellows awaited him.

He pulled on his coat in such haste that he did not notice at first that he had got it on inside-out, such was his excitement to be away. I watched him greeted by his fellows and returned once more to my study and my books.